"Mirror" by Sylvia Plath

When the mirror is being described as being "unmisted by love or dislike,"we understand that the mirror

• is silver in color

• is not misted

• is not prejudiced

• has four angles

"I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.

Whatever I see I swallow immediately"

"I" refers to....

• The poet

• A woman

• A god

• The mirror

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When the poet says that the mirror has no preconceptions it means....

• It does not care what the other person thinks of it.

• It gives an unbiased and truthful view of the person.

• It reflects your image vaguely.

• It is emotionally involved with the person whose image it reflects .

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What literary device has been used in the line below?

"Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish."

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

" A woman bends over me,

Searching my reaches for what she really is.

Then she turns to those liars, the candle or the moon."

What is the woman bending over?

• The mirror

• The lake

• The moon and the candles

• The opposite wall

Who is the speaker in this poem?

• Sylvia Plath

• The poet

• The mirror

• The woman

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

This poem is an example of _______________.

• Rhyme

• An extended metaphor

• Alliteration

• Poetic language

What has happened to the young girl in the poem?

• She got lost.

• She drowned.

• She broke the mirror.

• She grew old.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Which word best characterises the speaker in the first stanza of the poem?

• Sympathetic

• Annoyed

• Objective

• Critical

The use of swallow in line 2 is an example of personification. What effect does it have on the poem?

• It conveys the way the mirror completely consumes whatever it see.

• It reveeals how hungry tthe mirror is for new images to consume.

• It explains why the mirror has grown tired of seeing the same things.

• It sugges the mirror reflects anything blocking its view of the wall.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.W.9-10.9